The artefact was created as a reflection of my personal winter, the state of creativity I found myself in. The vessel, roots and glass branches were created in three different places, with rhythmical repetition, that was an answer to inner stillness. How do I find a connection with silent, frozen forest? How do I cope with the cold and darkness?

In winter, the forest becomes almost silent. I walked among frozen trees and touched the bark, resembling the cold, textured and steady. Branches covered with ice. On the surface, everything seemed still. I wondered how the tree survives such a season. Beneath the snow, its roots remain unseen, holding fast in frozen ground. Paying attention to what remains unseen as fallen trees, gifting me the roots that they no longer need.
In the studio, I follow this rhythm, the lesson that trees gifted me. I coil the clay, shape the glass in flame, weave wire with wool and gathered roots. Repetition becomes a way of staying present through my own winter, treating the stillness as a new angle for my personal creativity.

Materials: Hand built bisque-fired clay, flame-worked glass, aluminium wire, wool thread, collected tree roots.